Research Paper Assignment

Clusty

A great Search Engines… www.clusty.com Organizes results in folders. A wonderful extension beyond Google’s utility.
You can also focus your search to .edu sites…

As word document -

Sites on the word document

http://vlib.iue.it/history/USA/ Incredible depth organized in chronological units as well as topical ones (see lower left hand corner)

http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/ Great source for primary documents

http://historymatters.gmu.edu/browse/wwwhistory/ Perhaps the best site for annotated summaries of thousands of websites

http://www.gilderlehrman.org/ Gilder Lehrman – (articles and topics)

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/ From the UK – but solid and broad.

www.historycooperative.org Provides access to articles, though some offer only access to abstracts

http://www.academicinfo.net/usmod.html A rich array of topics from the 20th century

http://www.socialstudieshelp.com/Amer_History_Syallbus.htm (note incorrect spelling of syllabus)

http://www.tntech.edu/history/usa.html A great set of sites from a university American Studies course

http://kclibrary.nhmccd.edu/19thcentury1890.htm American Cultural History 19th century:
http://kclibrary.nhmccd.edu/decades.html 20th century:

http://tigger.uic.edu/~rjensen/political.htm Massive site on Political Science

http://www.oah.org/pubs/magazine/ Access to some of the journal’s Magazine of History entries

http://www.americanpresident.org/presidentialresources.htm The mongo Presidential site:

http://chswg.binghamton.edu/volume1.htm A nice site for women’s history:

Civil Rights and race
http://jimcrowhistory.org/
http://www.slaveryinamerica.org/
http://www.civilrightsmuseum.org/
http://www.stanford.edu/group/King/ Provides as deep and broad an understanding of MLK as found anywhere.

Famous Trials
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/ftrials.htm
A tremendous site that offers overviews, trial transcripts and documents, and short scholarly opinions on each of a few dozen controversial and
important cases in US history.

Cold War:
CNN TV Special http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/
Offers summaries and a few documents for each of its roughly dozen episodes
Popular Culture (GREAT Site) http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/592readinglist.html
A huge site with many primary documents primarily looking at the Cold War through culture (film, anti-communist material, colleges, literature, gender roles…)
Films http://www.lib.washington.edu/exhibits/AllPowers/film.html
A Red Scare” filmography”

Songs:
http://my.homewithgod.com/heavenlymidis/USA/index.html
http://www.folkarchive.de/history.html (Tremendously rich site)
http://www.voicesacrosstime.org/


Link to a wiki site put together by the librarian, Mrs. Smith
http://mlhs-virtual-library.wikispaces.com/APUSH+Resources